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MySpace Spreads Spyware
    #5880835 - 07/20/06 09:54 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

RESTON, VA, United States (UPI) -- Millions of visitors to Myspace.com and other Web sites have been infected with spyware by a banner advertisement, said Reston, Va., company iDefense.

iDefense, an Internet security company owned by Verisign, said the spyware infects unpatched versions of Windows using a security flaw in the way the operating system and Microsoft Internet Explorer open Windows Metafile images, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

The banner ad, for DeckOutYourDeck.com, loads a Trojan horse program onto unpatched systems that installs adware of the PurityScan/ClickSpring family, said Michael La Pilla, an iDefense 'malcode' analyst. He said the adware tracks the user`s Internet usage and causes the infected system to be flooded with pop-up ads.

La Pilla said the installation program contacts a Russian-language server in Turkey that counts how often the program is installed. He said the site suggests that the program has been installed on 1.07 million computers.

http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1182541.php/Ad_on_MySpace_spreads_spyware


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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Diploid]
    #5880874 - 07/20/06 10:13 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Thank you, again, Firefox :laugh:


Shame on verisign!


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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Schwip]
    #5880975 - 07/20/06 10:49 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

> Shame on verisign!

Why?


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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Diploid]
    #5881182 - 07/20/06 11:59 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

use windows if you must, but if you're still using IE, you deserve to get infected.


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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Schwip]
    #5881493 - 07/20/06 01:50 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Oops....totally thought they said the banner was owned by verisign!

doh!

the heat must be getting to me today.


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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Schwip]
    #5883648 - 07/21/06 04:39 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

^^^  :grin:


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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Diploid]
    #5899272 - 07/25/06 07:14 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Would this be the Java/ByteVerify trojan I found on my system recently?


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